What Trove is, what it isn’t.
Trove is a directory of verified restaurant deals, organized around the three things people actually look up: a birthday freebie, a happy hour, a lunch special. Every offer carries the date it was last checked.
Chain rewards work at any US location, so the Birthday Calendar is useful anywhere. Local depth is strongest in our home markets, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and the Brazos Valley, and grows where users submit. If your city isn’t covered yet, tell us about a deal or drop your ZIP on the Birthday Calendar. We open new metros where users actually show up.
No accounts. No tracking. No selling our list. The deterministic tools return the same result for the same inputs, so a link you share with a friend shows them what it showed you.
What you can do here
Four primary surfaces, each answering a different question:
- Birthday Calendar. Enter your birthday and ZIP, pick a craving or two if you want, and get every verified birthday reward you can claim in a window around your birthday. One card per restaurant, exportable to your phone calendar, shareable by link.
- Happy Hours. Where to go right now. Filterable by neighborhood, day, and price tier. Each offer shows the window, the deal, and any conditions (bar-only, dine-in, etc.) up front.
- Lunch Specials.Weekday specials at sit-down restaurants — the meal deals that don’t turn up in a Google search because they’re buried on PDFs and Instagram stories. We surface them with the price and the window.
- Loyalty Apps, Ranked. A plain-language guide to 36 chain loyalty programs, scored by what they actually give you. Birthday rewards windowed on a calendar strip so you can see at a glance which are birthday-only, which last a week, and which span the month. This is the editorial moat against chain marketing copy.
Also here: a weekly dinner plan, a nearby-deals search by ZIP, a submission form for deals we should verify, and a one-tap report when something on a page is wrong.
How verification works
Every offer has a last-verified date. Fresh ones say so in green; anything past 30 days softens to amber; anything past 90 drops off the public pages until we re-check it. The source of each offer links to the restaurant’s own page — never a third-party listicle.
Visitors can confirm an offer with a one-tap thumbs-up after a visit, or report a change without filling out a form. A confirmation refreshes the verified date. A report routes to a verifier who checks the source before anything updates.
How far it reaches
Two layers, on purpose. The chain rewards layer covers about 50 brands whose programs work the same way at any US location — Chipotle, Starbucks, Red Robin, Olive Garden, IHOP, Whataburger, and others. Type any US ZIP and those rewards show up.
The local layer is what we’ve walked into and verified ourselves. Today that means four metros — San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and the Brazos Valley — with neighborhood guides for the districts where the deals cluster, from Stone Oak to Montrose. Depth varies honestly: San Antonio and Austin run deepest; Houston and the Brazos Valley are growing as we verify more independents there. A framework of satellite markets across the I-35 corridor and Hill Country (New Braunfels, San Marcos, Boerne, Fredericksburg, Lockhart and others) puts chain locations on the right pages in the meantime. New deep markets follow demand, measured by birthday-search ZIPs and where submissions actually come from.
Where the editorial notes come from
Some offers carry a short note from the verifier — first-hand commentary on whether the deal is actually worth it, or what the fine print really means (“item varies year to year, check the app the morning of”). Listicles don’t have that. We do.
What’s not here
No movie theaters, gyms, or retail — restaurants only. No accounts. No points, levels, streaks, or badges. No rankings that change based on what we’re paid to show you. No location tracking. No newsletter unless you explicitly join the waitlist for a city we don’t cover yet.